India’s ports tread a private path
NewsIndia, which has 12 major ports and 185 minor and intermediate ports dotting the country’s 7000 km coastline, offers major opportunities t...
Pusan New Port coming soon
NewsUnited Arab Shipping Company (UASC) is tipped to become the first customer at Pusan New Port (PNP), whose first three berths will become ope...
Green light for Gangavaram
NewsThe long-planned Gangavaram port in south India’s Andhra Pradesh state has finally achieved financial closure....
CT3 to change hands?
NewsSpeculation is growing that Dubai Ports International (DPI) will sell its one-berth Container Terminal 3 (CT3) at Hong Kong’s Kwai Chung c...
India port boost for domestic operators
NewsIndia’s Shipping Ministry has come out in favour of a system of bidding for port terminals that will help domestic companies compete more ...
Four eye Dunkirk
NewsIn response to a tender, APM Terminals (APMT), Dubai Ports International (DPI), CMA-CGM, and Australia’s International Infrastructure Mana...
Business trickles into ACT
NewsAfter remaining idle for about a year, the gantry cranes at Asia Container Terminals (ACT), the twoberth facility now operated by Dubai Port...
PSA signs for second Tianjin box terminal
NewsSingapore’s PSA International has signed up to take a 30 per cent stake in a joint venture that will build a six-berth container terminal ...
Mixing the new and the old in Egypt
NewsDuring the 1990s, Egypt’s ports were operating at almost maximum capacity and the government faced a stark choice: build new ones or rapid...
Melbourne under fire
NewsPatrick chief Chris Corrigan has taken the big stick to the Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC), warning that the port risked relegation to...
Kochi hands RGCT over to DPI
NewsIndia’s Kochi Port Trust (KPT) has handed over the Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal (RGCT) to Dubai Ports International (DPI), which will o...
DPI wraps up CSXWT acquisition
NewsDubai Ports International (DPI) has completed the acquisition of CSX World Terminals (CSXWT), the international terminal business of CSX Cor...
Raising the stakes for hub port status
NewsTranshipment cargo is notoriously “fickle” but several new terminals backed by global port operators are set to make the fight for trans...
DPI inks Vallarpadam deal
NewsDubai Ports International (DPI) has formally signed an agreement with the Kochi Port Trust (KoPT) to build and operate an international cont...
Mumbai tries again for offshore terminal
NewsIndia’s Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT), which has been trying desperately to find investors to develop an offshore container terminal, is making...